oren's_new_word_observation oren Okay. Here's an example of how it works... You're reading a book. You come upon a word you have never seen in your life. You look it up. You think to yourself, "What a waste of time. I'll never see that word again. Shoot, I've been reading books for over_thirty years, why did the author dig up such an obscure word?" One day later... You're in the doctor's office waiting room. You pick up a Newsweek. You find an article of interest. Lo_and_behold, guess what word appears in the article? Still not convinced that the word should even be in your vocabulary, you ask your nurse if she's ever heard of the word. She says, "Sure," and proceeds to give you the definition. From that point on, you see the word used with regularity. Could your life have been twisting its way around this word for thirty years? - 020114 ... kelli crane this happens to me all of the time. I think I've figured it out though. we have seen that word before, but since we didn't know what it meant, we scanned right over it. Not processing it because we didn't have a use for it. I know my theory is true. It has to be because it happens to frequently. Now that we know the word a little light goes on and we go oh! there's that word, and later realize this word is pretty common........now that WE know it 020114 ... oren That's YOUR theory. And it certainly warrants merit... I'm not convinced yet. 020114 ... unhinged grandiloquent although it only seems to appear in music history texts 020114 ... kellicrane okay, i'm going to give you a word (hopefully one you don't know the definition off) and then i'm going to give you the definition. and sure as shit you're going to start seeing it everywhere. It's really the only explanation that makes sense. there's not like this word fairy out there fucking with or anything. I'm gonna look up a word right now. hold on......... 020114 ... oren Unhinged, who knows? Maybe we'll all start seeing this word regularly... 020114 ... oren The Word_Fairy! That's it!!!!!! Thanks, Kelli... 020114 ... Mahayana [puts an unknown word under my pillow] [[hoping to find a prize]] [in the morning] ~¿~ Zzz ill let U know if i get anything 020114 ... kelli crane JODHPURS RIDING BREECHES THAT ARE WIDE AROUND THE HIPS AND NARROW AT THE CALVES.OFTEN WITH REINFORCED PATCHES AT THE KNEES AND ON THE THIGHS WHERE THE RIDERS LEGS TOUGH THE HORSE. now within 24 hours we are both going to be seeing this word. (thanks to the word fairy) 020114 ... oren Oww! My ears hurt! 020114 ... Toxic_Kisses This word is from a dictionary that is copy right 1927 and I'm sure it's a word neither I nor any one else will ever see often Wamoumpeag 020114 ... oren Hell, I see that one all the time! *Ducks* 020114 ... Toxic_Kisses my gosh I run into this word all the time when I'm @ Jims, he makes jodhpurs and saddles. 020114 ... TK okay, than what does Wamoumpeag mean eh? 020114 ... oren I dunno ... but I still see it all the time. *Ducks again* 020114 ... Toxic_Kisses *Resists the urge to throw her shoe @ oren and instead rolls her eyez* Fine so does any one else here in Blather ever constantly run into the word Wamoumpeag? Give it a week b4 answering 020114 ... syringe I've seen it three times today already. 020114 ... steve aha! 020114 ... User24 I've never heard of Wamoumpeag, but I knew what jodphers were (but not how to spell it) because I used to go horse riding. lemme think of a word.. convoluted 030701 ... marked . 031103 ... oren It's been several years now and I_have not run into the_word "wamoumpeag" yet. 060108 ... z zeitgeist. words come into and pass from the vernacular like fashion. it is a meme thing. 060109 what's it to you? who go blather from